Jonah Books Quotes & Sayings

If your posture is that of one washing dirty feet, you are prevented from looking down on others and, instead, look up to them. — Jonah Books

Zero preparation gives zero results. 0x0= 0 — Jonah Books

In the valley of unknown, in my moments of uncertainty, the clutter flees and silence allows me to hear the voice of the LORD — Jonah Books

Most people spend a life time thinking of what they don't have instead of taking an inventory of what they do have. — Jonah Books

Oh may the thunder awaken me, the sun help me see, the rain refresh me and my soul bloom in thee. — Jonah Books

My loved ones may vanish through death but my memories live on — Jonah Books

I love you' is validated with action. — Jonah Books

God's ways are God events. — Jonah Books

If you had all the resources in the world at your disposal to hire anybody you want who would you hire, ordinary unschooled men (Acts 4:13). — Jonah Books

Religion does not define God's character God reveals it to us in His word and in person, in His Son Jesus Christ. — Jonah Books

My heartaches, sadness has consumed me, emptiness has filled me, hold me do not let me slip away. — Jonah Books

Jesus has the authority and power to re-create not just refurbish us. — Jonah Books

Those who die will live but the question is a matter of location! — Jonah Books

Death is required to restore life. — Jonah Books

You will always be remember for how you finish — Jonah Books

At some point in time we have to hand over the baton. — Jonah Books

When the Lord's angelic brakeman brings my life to a standstill, "and this train ends" I will board the next train and "I'll try again" (lyrics from Tuesday's Gone by Lynyrd Skynyrd). — Jonah Books

No one can fill your footprint. — Jonah Books

Predestined to a destiny that only Christ can fulfill, all other leadership assures failure. — Jonah Books

The flesh is weak and my frailty is exposed, Oh praise be to God it is by Christ Alone — Jonah Books

Salvation is the work of God planned in eternity, communicated by the prophets in the Old Testament and fulfilled in Christ; all of which the apostles bear witness to and the angels long to look into these things. — Jonah Books

The war is won but the battle rages, the lion is toothless yet roars, the clown frowns but the Son Shines, the Trumpet is ready to sound, the sword drawn, and the white horse ready to descend, whose rider is called Faithful and True. — Jonah Books

To define leadership then we must first look to the Godhead, the Triune God. In that way we begin with perfection, while at the same time need to understand that humanity is not of the essence of God. The great news is God is in charge. Nothing frustrates, threatens, or interrupts the plan of God; it begins in eternity and is completed in eternity (1 Peter 1:1, 2; Ephesians 1:3-14). — Jonah Books

Our world today is in the same condition, in total denial that God is real and angry with sinners. — Jonah Books

? If you are not awed in the presence of a Holy God, then I say you may be like the crowds we have been observing in the Gospel of Mark and think of Jesus as no more than a winning lottery ticket to solve your immediate problems. Once the ticket is cashed, you take the money and go your own way. — Jonah Books

Our desire for knowledge is not bad but our failure to believe what God said is deadly. — Jonah Books

Keep an eye on the future as you work in the present and you will catch a glimpse of the completed work which you have been called to do. — Jonah Books

Modernity has come to=syncretism — Jonah Books

Mindless activity can't experience joy. — Jonah Books

Every encounter you have is a Divine encounter ordained by God. — Jonah Books

Remembering often is rehearsing what you want reality to be. — Jonah Books

God works in mysterious ways so if you let the world dictate the way God works, you will miss God working. — Jonah Books

The movement Mark records of Jesus is a deliberate display of the character of God so that we may know him and his ways. Jesus could have avoided the synagogue and the encounter on the Sabbath. Instead, Jesus confronts this violent injustice to the character of God propagated by Israel's current religious and political leaders. (Mark 3)-from He has to die — Jonah Books

Jesus is teaching and wants you to learn. This means you will be stretched. Jesus does not want you stuck in a bonehead English class, which I was for several years. — Jonah Books

Jesus was always on the front-lines washing dirty feet. Humility soon is shelved in ministry and we start thinking to much of ourselves. It is hard to effectively minister in Christ name when we look down on someone, but if we are washing their feet we look up to them giving them value and worth. — Jonah Books

A proper distribution of weight allows equality on each support. — Jonah Books

There is a date fixed when our work will end, which gives us assurance it will be completed. — Jonah Books

Leadership is not something that is added, but rather built in the DNA of creation, an orderly creation (1 Corinthians 12:12; 14:38-45; Titus 1:5; Genesis 1; 2). The real question is whether humanity has high-jacked Leadership? — Jonah Books

Emptiness crowded out joy and silence replaced meaning, but the Son is shining. — Jonah Books

Those who have received mercy are destined to extend mercy — Jonah Books

The attitude of invincibility flees at the first encounter of injury, disease, or loss of a loved one. — Jonah Books

Can you rejoice when others do well? Seems simple but most of the time we are so driven to succeed that when others make progress it stirs up resentment within our inner most being. What might happen in our workplace environments if we could be encouragers and supporters while pursuing our goals at the same time? — Jonah Books

The call to be an elder is neither a call to mediocrity nor taking a title of honor while sending others on ahead. — Jonah Books

Will the desire to maintain power and our level of comfort in our religious institutions equal the zeal of the Pharisees and Herodians who plotted to kill Jesus? — Jonah Books

The wall of my heart is thin and the beat irregular but a new heart is being formed in me. — Jonah Books

God has provided you a stage and a podium to make him known. — Jonah Books

Once you cross the threshold of 30 plus years of marriage you soon realize that what use to be two is now merging into one. — Jonah Books

The banner waved by the religious leaders reads; do not upset my world! Jesus is one who comes to call an about face and reverse the curse. Jesus call is not half way or three quarters; it is a complete and utter abandonment to his Lordship. Will the Pharisees and Herodians submit to Jesus Lordship? — Jonah Books

Satan vanishes as quickly as his name appears, but Jesus emerges as the obedient Son. — Jonah Books

Jesus does not make claims as a dictator removed from the battlefield but rather goes before us leading the charge as King of the Kingdom of God. — Jonah Books

It is natural for humankind to reject the gospel. — Jonah Books

Allowing the failures of others to control your life is to allow them to control your future. — Jonah Books

Levi celebrates the Pharisees scowl. — Jonah Books

If the Great Physician examined your life, what do you think His diagnosis would be concerning your spiritual life? — Jonah Books

Death comes as it pleases; it is no respecter of persons leaving memories and a fading sound of a familiar voice. — Jonah Books

The biggest obstacle to learning is LISTENING with ears to hear. — Jonah Books

Are you a Nehemiah and pull others hair out (Neh 13:25) or are you an Ezra who pulled out his own hair (Ezra 9:3), both were grieved over godless conduct or do you care at all? — Jonah Books

Success at the expense of goodness is like a beautiful apple tree without apples. — Jonah Books

The Church is enamored with skilled orators and performers working the stage like a choreographed Broadway play. Others profess to talk about how Jesus ministry was mere story telling like through parables and that is why it was so effective. It is though there is some magical incantation, if we just repeat then things will happen. It is like the current modernity movement in the church, dumb it down that is the problem. If we just take away the mystery and otherness of God then we will know and see God, really? — Jonah Books

Godless behavior will never provide the peace and joy it promises to produce. — Jonah Books

The constant bombardment of the paranormal through media (Reality TV, Movies, Magazines etc.) is desensitizing our understanding of the cosmic warfare that is being waged by Satan. — Jonah Books

Prophecy fulfilled:
Peter's life is a quill and the ink is his blood. — Jonah Books